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So awesome how she did that, haha.

My mom was biggest mags fan. She was active on this mats tape trading website in the very early days of the Internet (like early 90s). She had some insane live shows on tape that I’ve never been able to find again, and I keeep hoping these box sets will have it. One tape had them do a Jackson 5 medley of ABC, never can say goodbye and they tried to do another one but gave up. She had one where they played a bunch of Ramones songs. Still another tape had them playing a really punk version of Kiss Me On The Bus that was absolutely bonkers good. They were incredibly talented musicians but also drunken messes who loved to fuck around- such a great recipe for a good show. Their reunions shows were great, I saw them twice but I would have loved to see them in the mid-80’s

I got editors choice comment this week and it was such an awesome feeling! Reminded me of when Maximumrocknroll gave a very positive review to my middle school fanzine. Maximumrocknroll is now out of print and I’ll be damned if I let Stereogum go the same way. I don’t comment that much and am new to it but I have been such a fan, and learned so much about cool art from Stereogum for over a decade. I’m glad SG reached out and asked for help, I’m gladly giving you guys all i can, and look forward to encouraging other to do the same while wearing a cool new shirt! Again thank you SG and to all the awesome commenters. As pitchfork, and other sites like it get worse and worse, SG gets better and better. More important than ever to lend a hand!

Wow I really feel honored that I got editor’s choice this week! I have been an avid reader of gum for at least a decade and am new to commenting. I loved sharing this story and to sing the praises of Hum and the music scene of Champaign early 90s. This honor really made my weekend. I love Stereogum and would most definitely buy a shirt. This site is very important to me. Thank you for everything!

Poster Children were awesome! The songs “where we live” and “ if you see Kay” Were some of the first songs I ever remember as a kid. Their first album was produced by Albini and was a banger. And the were very cool and nice people. Champaign had a great scene in the early 90s- Hum, Honcho Overload, Poster Children, Braid, SteakDaddySix, Menthol, Corndolly, Wolfie, the Didjits! So many good bands I forget some.

I grew up in Champaign and these guys are the real deal in every way. Matt Talbott is insanely cool and nice. I was in a nirvana cover band when I was 10 and Hum let us open a few times for them. We were these little kids playing huge shows, and Talbott was so cool and encouraging to us. it was truly incredible. A little reported fact is that Hum was actually the side project of a band called Honcho Overload, who were also great. Matt was bass player for Honcho and the singer was a guy named Bill Johnson who was also so cool and nice to my little garage band. Highly recommend Honcho Overload if you’re into Hum. The song “Miserable” is amazing, and was Champaign’s theme song until, well “Stars” came out, haha. Champaign had a real cool and vibrant music scene in early 90s, was lucky to a part of it

Glad you mentioned the Gories, the best garage rock band from Detroit and the biggest influence on the Stripes

Oh my god I posted this before reading the comments, ouch

Beverly Kills was the summer jam of 2010. Can’t believe that was 10 years ago

Remember when Thurston was like the elder statesman of alternative music?haha I've been turned on to a lot of amazing music, from all genres, from interviews and stuff from him for decades. He still cranks out cool music but wouldn't it be sick if he did a podcast? Dude has been been around for so many music scenes and seen so much. I would love for to do an interview show where he talks music with a variety of musicians and tells old stories and stuff. Sonic Youth was a great band not only for the awesome music they made, but because they gave support and put the spotlight to many interesting underground music scenes. Thurston (and the rest of the youths) is directly responsible for me knowing about a lot of great art.

Lana should release a cover of “take my breath away” as soon as possible. . It would speak to what a lot of people think she should do right now, she can claim she’s covering the song because she been attacked and she feels like she can’t speak or whatever. And she would absolutely do a good job with that tune. Everyone wins.

Long post about how we can say Courtney has been treated unfairly, was/ is the victim of absolutely gross attacks over many years, and has had her musical influence diminished over the years without putting down Kurt or Nirvana. Pretty on the inside and live through this are excellent records, definitely among of the best of the decade. But we don’t have to act like nevermind and in utero aren’t absolute masterpiece albums made by an absolutely beautiful soul when defending the unwarranted diminishment of Courtney’s legacy and music.

Great point made here. Love that idea. The music industry money people will never do it, but it would be a much better gesture than that weird music blackout thing or whatever they did yesterday

Someone forgive me if they already mentioned this anecdote here but one time (in the early nirvana days, pre-nevermind) Kurt contain went through Krist’s record collection, took out all the records that were problematic (Artists or lyrics that were sexist, racist, etc) and broke them all. I always found that story awesome. I always just assumed krist has some problematic records from his parents in with his own pile of records or something like that. I’ve been thinking about that story since I’ve seen Krists comments on trump. Kurt might have really been onto something with that move.

God this is so lame. I just got into them two weeks ago and had been rocking them constantly! Awesome music! I love their wild sound, their attitude of aggressive positivity. A few days ago they were suddenly completely gone from spotify and i was a bit puzzled but i am so sad to hear this. Thanks for the great music ladies, stay safe!

So cool of the 1975 to shout out Pinegrove just to say "oh Pinegrove, they're weird" and then completely rip off their entire sound on 3 songs. They're familiar enough with Pinegrove to expertly rip their sound but all they getting return is a "they're weird" shout out. Lame move. I'm not defending Pinegrove or anything but if I was Pinegrove listening to this album i'd be like "what the fuck dude" right about now

i know the Cameron quote explains where it is, i guess, i just watched that scene 5 times and didn't hear it. I shouldn't care about this, but now I'm invested.

i read this entire article twice and all the comments, and i still don't know- where is the song in the film????????

reminds me of this, from an interview with Tim in 2014- Interviewer: "the picture i got is that you have a really driven work ethic.." Tim: "To me, it's kind of like a greek tragedy. Kind of a curse, actually, on the one hand, i went to the oracle and she said "you'll have song". I'm really happy about that, but the rest of my life suffers. Relationships, bills, anything an adult needs to do, it kind of fucks it up, even down to like.....eating." Interviewer: "you mean you're playing guitar for like 7 hours and you're like, oh, I forgot to have dinner" Tim: "exactly"

As much as I absolutely love White Fence, the music he's made under his real name has been incredible. Larry's Hawk and the Wink are two of the the best records of the 2010's. It looks like this was a song he's had lying around for quite some time, but i really hope another long player from Tim is in the pike!